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<a href="http://www.reason.com/0412/fe.bl.disneys.shtml">Disney's War Against the Counterculture.</a> Parody Mickey Mouse and see your life turn to madness, even if things are more or set straight in the end. <i>"The main point," O'Neill says, "was to buck corporate thinking. We just didn't like bullshit."</i> [<a href="http://www.reason.com">via</a>]post:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.37674Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:27:17 -0800SticherbeastdisneycensorshipcopyrightmickeymousecomicbookscomicsBy: Fuzzy Monsterhttp://www.metafilter.com/37674/Disneys-War-Against-the-Counterculture#792132
Want to join the fight against censorship? Send a contribution to the <a href="http://www.cbldf.org/ ">Comic Book Legal Defense Fund</a>.comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.37674-792132Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:48:09 -0800Fuzzy MonsterBy: bahttp://www.metafilter.com/37674/Disneys-War-Against-the-Counterculture#792171
<em>"Doing something stupid once is just plain stupid," says O'Neill. "Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy. When you're down $190,000 in a poker game, you have to raise." </em><br><br>That's going in my new, highly derivative book <b>Everything I Need to Know, I learned in Atlantic City</b>.comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.37674-792171Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:12:16 -0800baBy: jcrueltyhttp://www.metafilter.com/37674/Disneys-War-Against-the-Counterculture#792243
fascinating read! what a character. disney is the beast. but disney vs o'neill, unfair fight... how about a <a href="http://www.grudge-match.com/History/micro-disney.shtml">REAL GRUDGE MATCH?</a>comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.37674-792243Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:54:26 -0800jcrueltyBy: y2karlhttp://www.metafilter.com/37674/Disneys-War-Against-the-Counterculture#792313
Thumbnails, linking to sizable jpegs of the <em>Air Pirates Funnies</em> covers mentioned in the <em>Reason</em> article, can be found, along with related text, on <a href="http://www.mogozuzu.com/comix_2b.htm">The Hippie Years, Page 2</a> of <a href="http://www.mogozuzu.com/comics.htm">Mogo Zuzu</a>.comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.37674-792313Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:35:41 -0800y2karlBy: quonsarhttp://www.metafilter.com/37674/Disneys-War-Against-the-Counterculture#792410
<i>Its good-hearted, uplifting, family-oriented fare drew upon values—patriotism and Puritanism, consumerism and conformity—that the cultural revolution of the '60s had called into question</i>
i boil everytime i see a reference like this. disney owned subsidiaries have been pumping out a steaming geyser of explicit violence and implicit sex since the 1970's.comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.37674-792410Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:12:47 -0800quonsarBy: jonp72http://www.metafilter.com/37674/Disneys-War-Against-the-Counterculture#792436
Here's an <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/23088">old post</a> of mine about Disney's killjoy attitude toward counterculture parodists in the 1960s. Disney's role as 800-pound gorilla in intellectual property disputes goes back many decades.comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.37674-792436Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:50:04 -0800jonp72By: undulehttp://www.metafilter.com/37674/Disneys-War-Against-the-Counterculture#792444
<a href="http://www.oddbodkins.com/shop.htm">Odd Bodkins</a>
I guess he's still doing them . . .comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.37674-792444Thu, 09 Dec 2004 18:07:56 -0800unduleBy: fold_and_mutilatehttp://www.metafilter.com/37674/Disneys-War-Against-the-Counterculture#792587
<i>We just didn't like bullshit.</i>
Steinbeck, through Cannery Row's Doc, warned us of the rarity of love for true things.
I used to think a contempt for outright bullshit (like that emanating from the corporation in question...as well as from most corporations) was universal.
Then I awoke in them there good ol' U.$. of A. Keeps one's idealism in firm check.
~wink~comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.37674-792587Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:50:38 -0800fold_and_mutilate